Inside prisoner of war camp holding Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine in Kursk offensive
RUSSIAN prisoners of war have revealed how their side was obliterated by Ukraine’s lightning-quick cross-border blitz into Kursk.“They experience this fear that they will beaten up or tortured.DOUBLE HORROROne had been in prison for theft when Putin’s army chiefs dragged him out and conscripted him into front-line action.
The 44-year-old father of one, who we will call Prisoner B, said there were only “six people left alive” from a unit that was 20-strong.He said: “We were attacked by tanks and mortars.“We tried to go back, but our bunkers were already captured by Ukrainian soldiers.”“They said if I started shooting they would kill me.”
Prisoner C did not mention a criminal past, but when asked about conditions in the Ukrainian PoW camp, he said: “If only our country had these kinds of conditions in their prisons.” Speaking from the PoW camp, he said: “In the army, drunk officers and drunk commanders give stupid orders. There is no order or discipline in the regular Russian army.”
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